St John’s Cathedral 19th Loaves and Fishes lunch

It was an absolute honour to be guest speaker at St John’s Cathedral 19^th Loaves and Fishes lunch in front of 500 people.

The beneficiary of this year’s luncheon was COOEE, an initiative of Indigenous Elders, who provide support for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander families.

During my address, I stressed the importance of providing job outcomes to indigenous Australians and told the audience that our services go far beyond creating employment opportunities.  We are:

•          Self esteem generator.

•          Role model creator for the local indigenous community.

•          Initiator for financial security and a positive future.

The lunch raised over $46,000 for COOEE and I was delighted to be able to donate $10,000 as well as raising another $1,500 through the donation of an indigenous artwork from one of our indigenous programmes – GidjiArt.

GidjiArt sells quality Indigenous art and equips Indigenous jobseekers with the life skills, industry skills and work experience they need for a career in retail.

Based in Bundaberg, Shop 66 is a 10-week indigenous retail training programme which includes work experience and mentoring support to ‘get that job’.

Sarina Russo Interview on leadership- 4BC Gary Hardgrave

Sarina Russo discusses her theories of what makes good leaders and how this applies to her own personal story. She suggests that a person’s individual success is down entirely to their attitude. Russo also discusses her recent meeting with Prince Andrew and her impression of his leadership skills.

Sarina Russo Excellence Award Winners

Congratulations to the 2012 first quarter winners of the Sarina Russo Excellence Awards.

You were nominated by your peers for demonstrating the attributes of EmpoweringLeadership, Entrepreneurial Innovation, Making a Difference or Character and Selflessness.

We salute you for thinking differently, challenging the status quo, delivering with speed and urgency and exceeding expectations.

JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY BRISBANE
Winner: – Academic Support staff
Award Criteria: Entrepreneurial Innovation
Related Corporate Value: Service Delivery
Reason for Nomination: The Team comprises – Michelle Mitchell, Gene Goldby, Valentina Josse, Brett Fyfield, Mai Lee Sayaxang, Anh Truong and Cliff Bothwell. Located at 349 Queen St, the team has over the past two trimesters developed a level of shared purpose, efficiency and ethic that has allowed the following initiatives to flourish – conduct of campus examinations, development of a trimester time table using Excel, saving $20,000 per year in licensing fees and improvement in enrolling of students into subjects with minimal variation errors.

SARINA RUSSO JOB ACCESS
Winner: Nyree Binney (Hervey Bay Office)
Award Criteria: Making a Difference
Related Corporate Value: Service Delivery
Reason for Nomination: Nyree has shown commitment to the Sarina Russo Job Access Team in Hervey Bay, Local employers, the general public and our candidates. Nyree has helped build trust and respect with employers, and assisted in the promotion and positive influence of Sarina Russo Job Access throughout the Fraser Coast Community with her professionalism and her willingness to “work beyond her call of duty”. Nyree is always “Happy go lucky”, she greets all co-workers and the public with her friendly smile and cheery hello. Through her positive attitude to her work, she is consistently delivering in Job Placement outcomes. For the month of February, Nyree acquired 31 Job Placement Claims. This assisted the Sarina Russo Job Access Hervey Bay office reach financial targets, and working towards a 5 Star office 

RUSSO RECRUITMENT
Winner: Anastasia Makarov
Award Criteria: Character and Selflessness
Related Corporate Value: Teamwork
Reason for Nomination: Anastasia has really grown in her role since starting with Russo. She is always willing to help her colleagues no matter how busy she is. She makes the role look easy and is always obliging. We are lucky to have her to work with. 

SARINA RUSSO APPRENTICESHIP SERVICES
Winner: Alice Turnbull
Award Criteria: Making a Difference
Related Corporate Value: Service Delivery
Reason for Nomination: Alice provides a high standard of customer service and has the ability to build great customer relationships with all her clients. Alice works well in the team and is always willing to support and help out other team members and me as her manager. Alice responds to clients need ASAP and provides accurate information to their inquiries. I know if I give a task to Alice she can be relied upon to get this task completed without a fuss. Alice is an asset to the Brisbane team and to SRAS. Alice always achieve higher than her targets every month.

SARINA RUSSO INSTITUTE & SARINA RUSSO SCHOOLS | AUSTRALIA Winner: Kerrie Sievwright
Award Criteria: Empowering Leadership
Related Corporate Value: Integrity
Reason for Nomination:  Kerrie has gone above and beyond her role description to support the Education group with the multiple audits faced in the last 8 months. Her hard work, diligence and uncompromising standards have ensured the division is stronger after each audit. Nomination Two – Kerrie provide support and encouragement to those around her empowering them to challenge themselves to learn from her knowledge and experience. Kerrie is a wonderful role model.

VOICE
Winner: Elise Roesner
Award Criteria: Empowering Leadership
Related Corporate Value: Service Delivery
Reason for Nomination: Sarina Russo Job Access refer a large number of jobseekers to Elise for support and intervention. Elise has an amazing ability to establish rapport quickly with these jobseekers and we have had a lot of success with moving these candidates to more appropriate services within SRJA and external. Elise keeps the communication lines open with the consultants and is constantly providing feedback, suggestions and following up with us regarding progress. Elise is a very large part of our success in the office and is appreciated by every single staff member at Beenleigh. We could not do it without her!

Sarina Russo interview The Project – Network TEN: Do you fit this job?

Experts say a new trend is developing where qualified job applicants are losing out to other less skilled candidates who are deemed more likely to fit in to the culture of the company. Recruitment expert Sarina Russo joins the program to discuss the issue. Russo says charm and personality are assets for employees, but technical skills are still important.

Sarina Russo extends apprenticeship services network

Sarina Russo Apprenticeship Services has extended its ability to build a skilled workforce after a successful Australian Apprenticeships Support Services (2012-2014) tender.

CEO Steve Wyborn said he looks forward to continuing to support employment and training throughout Brisbane and Melbourne and is absolutely delighted to extend services to Adelaide and Geelong.

In addition to our current services, the new contract provides us the opportunity to offer a range of enhanced services including:

• Increased use of electronic claims management and notifications to reduce paperwork and speed up claims processing

• Direct booking for a sign up through 1300 178 776– secures a time and place directly with the SRAS consultant

• More streamlined job matching services through our dedicated JobLynx Coordinators to match suitable jobseekers to your apprenticeship and traineeship vacancies – for free!

• Enhanced mentoring and support services to assist in apprentice retention strategies.

Sarina Russo

Enhancing Peoples’ Lives

Duke of York launches job ready training specialists at our SRJA Coventry UK!

Hi to all!

Congratulations to everyone at The Sarina Russo Group of Companies!

Together, in March 2012 we made the Royal visit of Prince Andrew happen in Coventry UK!

History was made:  His Royal Highness’ visit, Duke of York who inspired us all in his passion in caring about his people’s challenges and pain!

Prince Andrew really does care: he is so sincere with his desire to want to know how to empower and create greatness for his country!

It was one of the most exciting and rewarding days for our Group – it was a milestone and acknowledgement for all of us!

Employers just loved the invitation and jobseekers found it so amazing as the Duke spoke to everyone there!

In summary an absolute sensational day for all who was present – it was a privilege!

We will circulate a video and photos soon of this special Royal event.

I would like to thank Mark Berlese, Executives, Managers, Advisers and staff for their contribution and hard work – it was indeed a global showcase for our industry!

So what next?

Of course now I invited the Duke to come and visit Australia! What do you think?

Talk soon!

Sarina Russo